The Development of Diagnostic Inference about Uncertain Causes

Autor/inn/en	Sobel, David M.; Erb, Christopher D.; Tassin, Tiffany; Weisberg, Deena Skolnick
Titel	The Development of Diagnostic Inference about Uncertain Causes
Quelle	In: Journal of Cognition and Development, 18 (2017) 5, S.556-576 (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Weisberg, Deena Skolnick)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1524-8372
DOI	10.1080/15248372.2017.1387117
Schlagwörter	Inferences; Thinking Skills; Cognitive Ability; Cognitive Development; Child Development; Abstract Reasoning; Task Analysis; Age Differences; Causal Models; Young Children + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Inference; Inferenz; Denkfähigkeit; Kognitive Entwicklung; Kindesentwicklung; Abstraktes Denken; Denken; Aufgabenanalyse; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Kausalanalyse; Frühe Kindheit
Abstract	Young children can engage in diagnostic reasoning. However, almost all research demonstrating such capacities has investigated children's inferences when the individual efficacy of each candidate cause is known. Here we show that there is development between ages five and seven in children's ability to reason about the number of candidate causes whose efficacy is unknown (Study 1). We also find development between ages six and seven in these abilities when children are presented with several uncertain candidate causes in an additive causal system (Study 2). These findings demonstrate how children's diagnostic reasoning abilities develop beyond the preschool years and illustrate possible relations between children's developing diagnostic inference and scientific reasoning capacities. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01